Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I would like to read Thorndike's words. Again, I am not using a name. We are musing. We are hearing in the zeitgeist musings about plans to annex Canada. I am not musing that. I am a Member of Congress. I don't think we need to annex Canada. Personally, I love the relationship that the United States has with Canada. I am in a border State. We have a lot of Canadians who immigrate to the United States. They marry Michiganders. They live in our neighborhoods. Some of their workers come in to work in our hospitals. We have these great nurses. Of course, we have a phenomenal manufacturing partnership with Canada. We have a lot of shared memberships with the union. Remember, it is an international union, so the UAW has members in Canada. The trades have members in Canada, including the Steelworkers, who are very important to all of this as well and who know very much what good tariff policy could mean for them. I support them in that, but we don't need to be bullying Canada to become an annexed State. We need to make sure that we have strengthened security and good trade. When we hear, Mr. Speaker, oh, my goodness gracious, about blanket tariffs on our neighbors from the north, all aluminum imports face a 25 percent tariff, well, that is coming from Canada. I am the co-chair of the Aluminum Caucus, Mr. Speaker. It is a bipartisan caucus.…”